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It gives a pretty good idea about the vanilla game mode, although the very popular (some say too popular) “Minstagib” (one shot kills) and the total conversion mod Overkill (All new player-models and weapons, with team-spawn etc.) are also shortly shown.Not shown are the popular vehicle mod and the recently added lightning gun (still WIP), but you can try everything yourself easily by getting the auto-downloader of the latest development build here.

There’s a new big remake effort a-brewing in the Free Software world, this time for prominent shooter/RPG, System Shock. under the shape of project Citadel. According to project description, the goal is to recreate the original game using the widely known GPLed platform Darkplaces Engine, upgrading the game’s graphics to full 3D but keeping game aesthetics close to the origianl game.Added modding capabilities and cooperative multiplayer will also be a part of the project.

Details, however, are somewhat scarce, so far, as development is happening behind closed doors, and creator Josiah Jack just announced the existence of the project itself after months of programming in secret. While the code will certainly be all GPL or GPL-compatible due to Darkplaces licensing requirements, the game appears to rely on original proprietary assets, as well as using its own whose license nature is yet to be disclosed.

With a release date planned for the the 23rd of December, System Shock’s CD release anniversary, I guess we’ll have to wait and see if this project will deliver.

It seems all is back to normal! Thanks 123-reg for sorting out it quickly although nobody emailed me or updated the support ticket, but stellar support nonetheless.

If you want a domain name host, then I can happily recommend 123-reg after this experience.

**Update 2014-08-12 11:14**

I’ve been in touch with 123-reg and was told the following:

This domain has entered in a renewal phase at the registry, it will be completed on the 15-Aug-2014, during this phase you cannot make any DNS changes.

I asked if it would return to as-was once this is phase is completed and if they could do anything to speed it up, response:

Yes, they will return to the original ones, we have encountered these situations before and we can speed up the renewal process. I will need to escalate this chat to a support ticket to have my colleagues assist you further, is that ok?

So it is being escalated. I’ll keep this post updated.

**Original Post**

I’m not sure (as I’ve not heard from anybody, really) of the exact extent of the freegamedev.net outage (especially the forums which projects/people depend upon) but it is currently down for me and others if isup.me is to be believed.

I forgot to renew the domain. I would cite lots of excuses but I don’t have any!

Don’t panic! It is now renewed, but perhaps because I renewed it after it expired (on the 9th – I noticed the forums down this morning which is the 10th) it seems I don’t have access to the admin tools and it hasn’t recovered yet. They have taken my money though so I expect normal service to resume soon and my provider (123-reg) says the 16th at the latest.

To everybody that this impacts, I am sorry. It’ll be back soon. Also, it should auto-renew next year.